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Captivating Cave

Land — Cave · The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI)

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Times Brought

186

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Captivating Cave

Land — Cave

: Add

: Add one mana of any color. {4}

, Sacrifice this land: Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan (LCI) · Common · Illustrated by Lorenzo Lanfranconi

Final zone distribution

38 instances

65.8%

Battlefield

15.8%

Graveyard

18.4%

Hand

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle 10 decks
2 Kenrith, the Returned King 2 decks
3 Lathliss, Dragon Queen 2 decks
4 Shadrix Silverquill 2 decks
5 Zoraline, Cosmos Caller 2 decks
6 Alaundo the Seer 1 decks
7 Animar, Soul of Elements 1 decks
8 Atraxa, Praetors' Voice 1 decks
9 Avatar Aang // Aang, Master of Elements 1 decks
10 Balan, Wandering Knight 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

186 brought · 76 players

Brought to game

186

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 89% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -3.9pp

Players who cast this card win 33% of the time (n=21) , vs 26% when it never left the library (n=108).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +7.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.9pp to +18.7pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=28

25%

11%

14%

36%

T6-9

T10+

Median 5.0 P25 2 · P75 7 · max 11

Cast same turn as drawn 67%

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 760,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.